Sharpen up friends! This month we’re pruning! I’m helping you with deciduous fruit trees, berries, grapes, currants, feijoas and avocado’s. If you haven’t found your pruning feet yet, know that you will. Pruning is a journey! Be content with becoming familiar with one new thing this winter. Perhaps seeing the framework for the first time, […]
Kumara and Ginger Loaf
By | LastUpdated June 1, 2023
June is the perfect month for this kind of baking. Dense, moist and gingery – its just the thing to make a grey day bright. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Steam or roast, 2 large orange kumara or the equivalent of pumpkin, to create a thick, dry-ish puree. 11/2cups of kumara/ pumpkin puree75g melted […]
How to Choose Your Fruit Trees Well
By | LastUpdated May 28, 2024
Your goal, in choosing your fruit trees, is to match them to your environment – both the rootstock (bottom) and scion (tops). When well matched, your trees thrive with very little inputs from you – easy orcharding awaits! To do this well, you need to understand: We tend to focus all our attention on the […]
How to Plant + Prune Deciduous Fruit Trees
By | LastUpdated June 1, 2023
Fruit trees perform better by far when grown in native soil – ie soil that’s original to your site. Deciduous fruit trees don’t need compost + fert around their roots – the original soil is perfect especially if you’ve matched your rootstocks to it. What they need is a fungal environment – one created by […]
June in the Vegie Patch + All About Fruit Trees
By | LastUpdated June 1, 2023
With the vegie garden on the go slow, winter brings a golden opportunity to take care of garden improvements. If you’re at the start of your garden journey it’ll be the big impact, important stuff like drainage, shelter, clearing out trees + structures that block light or flow, tree + plant research – working up […]
Pumpkin, Almond + Date Cookies with Chocolate Drizzle
By | LastUpdated May 1, 2023
Pumpkin puree is super handy to have in the freezer and a quick, easy way to use up the old slice of squash in the crisper, or any stored pumpkin that are developing soft spots. Use them before they go off! Cut them in half, throw them in the oven and roast them until soft. […]
